Legal & Compliance - Page 21

The dominance of elite law schools in large law firm hiring has been gradually eroding over the past decade, according to new research. SurePoint’s 2026 Law School Hiring Report examined entry-level recruitment

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from an 82-year-old Alaskan bush pilot whose aircraft was seized following a misdemeanor alcohol conviction. Kenneth Jouppi was operating a one-man air

The IRS issued Notice 2026-40 on June 18, 2026, providing critical transition rules for expiring opportunity zone census tracts certified under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The guidance, known

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new automatic penalty relief program and a federal court has invalidated a significant global intangible low-taxed income regulation, marking major shifts in US tax enforcement.

The Justice Department has moved to disqualify Susman Godfrey as legal counsel for the American Bar Association in its ongoing lawsuit over Trump administration executive orders targeting Biglaw firms. The administration filed

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order temporarily pausing state environmental permitting for large-scale data centre projects for one year. The order applies to covered projects generally understood to

For six years, the digital advertising industry prepared for a world without third-party cookies, commissioning panels, restructuring measurement stacks, and building replacement infrastructure from scratch. In July 2024, Google reversed course entirely,

Receiving a cease and desist letter is a legal conflict that demands immediate, considered attention rather than avoidance, according to guidance from Ward and Smith, P.A. Authors Amy G. Fitzhugh and E.

On July 14, 2026, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule rescinding the regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. The

A California federal court granted a preliminary injunction on July 14, blocking the state’s attorney general from enforcing Senate Bill 343, its recycling labelling law. SB 343 requires businesses to verify that